Exifer hasn't been updated for years now and there won't be an update in future. I want to thank all users from all over the world who sent me postcards for registration in the past. I didn't answer all of them because it was simply too much for me. Many many thanks!!!

You can still download Exifer below, but I think in the meantime there are a lot of applications which do a better job, because Exifer isn't state of the art in speed, look & feel and functionalety anymore. As a replacement for Exifer, I can offer my new application GeoSetter, which perhaps may be interesting for you as a replacement for Exifer's features regarding IPTC editing and viewing EXIF data.

I can especially recommend IMatch which I've been using for about 3 years now as a database solution for organizing my images. It's not free, but it does almost everything which can be done with images - in other words, in my opinion it's absolutely worth the money!!!

As an alternative for Exifer in viewing the EXIF data of images, I can highly recommend PhotoME by Jens Duttke. It's still under development, but it's free too and it already shows all the technical data which slumbers in your digital images. For renaming and sorting images by their metadata, you can try AmoK ExifSorter and for those of you which are familiar with the command line, ExifTool by Phil Harvey may be the best solution because it reads and writes nearly all meta data from/to a large number of different file formats. I'm using ExifTool also for my application GeoSetter.

Because Exifer won't be continued anymore, it's not necessary to send a postcard for registration anymore. Thanks again to all of the users which have registered it in the past...

Description

Exifer is a nearly free software (you only should send me a postcard
if you're using Exifer frequently) with which you can manage the metadata
(EXIF/IPTC) of pictures taken by digital cameras.

Because many image processing software destroys this metadata when saving
such files, the idea was to create a backup of the metadata before editing
it in any software, and then, after that to restore it back into the processed
file. With Exifer you can do this very easily.

Features

Supports EXIF (up to 2.2) and IPTC data in JPEG and TIFF files

Reading and displaying of makernotes by Canon, Casio, Fuji, Minolta,
Nikon and Olympus

Known problems

History

v2.1.5 (build 263) (09/18/2002)
! Fixed some EXIF makernote fields
! When adding watermarks in batch mode for more than one image, the inserted
data will always has been taken from the first image only.
! Creating and removing thumbnails didn't work.
! Exifer created an empty file c:\exifer.txt.
! Empty date fields has been exported as 12/30/1899 to CSV.

v1.0.16 beta (build 100) (01/30/2002)
* All changes from v1.0.15 beta are now also available in English
language.
+ Supports Windows XP.
+ Added time offset feature to edit dialog.
+ Option to add/remove Exifer to/from the Explorer context menu in options
dialog.
+ Possibility to enable/disable asking for creating a backup when opening
an image by "open with".
+ Showing progress when reading a directory with lot of images.
! Fixed some minor bugs.

v1.0.14 beta (build 85) (09/17/2001)
! Fixed a lot of minor bugs
+ Commandline parameters (Exifer can be called with a file or directory)
+ Copying, moving and deleting of image files
* Redesigned Exif view
* "Tip of the day" is only available when using the German language
* Improved slideshow (with Exif window, lossless rotation)
* Improved a lot of other minor things

v1.0.14 beta (build 53) (09/11/2001)
! Fixed problems with Windows 95/98: The backup files haven't been moved
to the backup directory if they haven't been needed anymore
! Fixed a lot of minor bugs
+ Rename and redate
+ Lossless rotating
+ Slideshow
+ Toolbar
+ Support for English and German language
+ "Tip of the day" and "Hint" dialogs
+ "Insert from file" (*exi or *jpg) is also possible for all
selected files now, not only one file.

v1.0.12 beta (08/27/2001)
+ Options dialog (screenshot).
+ Customizable camera values for converting the focal length to an equivalent
value of analog cameras (screenshot).
+ The time stamp of an image file will be saved into the backup files
and can be restored optional.
+ Purging files in backup directory after a certain time period or when
the total size of files exceeds a certain value.
+ Customizable export of Exif values to a CSV file.
+ Customizable menu with programs for "open with" (screenshot).
+ Deleting exif backups.
+ Sizable preview image.
+ Drag and drop to other applications.
+ Several select commands.
* Many little things and many minor fixes.

v1.0.11 beta (08/22/2001)
! Fixed problems with bigger fonts.

v1.0.10 beta (08/22/2001)
! Fixed some minor bugs.
+ The date fields now can be changed for all selected files without changing
the time.

v1.0.7 beta (08/05/2001)
! Fixed all problems with tested cameras (see above) and hopefully with
all cameras in general.
! Improved the speed of reading a directory with picture files.
! "Load"-dialog had the default extension "exif".
Now it's "exi".
+ Moved all buttons to a menu.
+ The file list box has got a popup menu and a new column which shows
if a backup for the exif information exists.
+ The date fields and the user comment can be edited for all selected
files ("Exif | Edit...").
+ Reading/writing the user comments of all selected files from/to a file
"descript.ion". This is a hidden ASCII file which can be handled
among others by ACDSee.
+ Progress bar.

v1.0.2 (07
/31/2001)
! Reading images with motorola byte aligns (pictures taken with
Ricoh-, some Kodak-, Sony and other Cameras).
+ Editing of date and time fields.
+ Editing of user comment.

Disclaimer

This software is provided "as-is". No warranty of any kind
is expressed or implied. You use at your own risk. The author will not
be liable for data loss, damages, loss of profits or any other kind of
loss while using or misusing this software.

You are granted the right to use and to make an unlimited number of copies
of this software.

Commercial use and distribution is not authorized without agreement.

Installing and using this software signifies acceptance of these terms
and conditions of the license.